IDG Contributor Network: Microsoft is buying LinkedIn, but what’s the real motive?
The news resounded in an echo chamber this morning. Microsoft is buying the most well-known and useful social network for…
IDG Contributor Network: Checking in on HPE: A 2016 report card
I have something of a checkered past with HPE, the enterprise business that was created when Hewlett-Packard split itself into…
VMware launches new service to manage endpoint security
VMware wants to help companies get a better handle on the security of the computers their employees use. The new…
NSA interested in exploiting internet-connected medical devices, spying on IoT
The NSA has new tricks up its sleeve, looking for ways to exploit the Internet of Things and connected biomedical…
Microsoft scoops up LinkedIn for $26.2B in cash
Microsoft announced early Monday that it will acquire enterprise social network LinkedIn for approximately $26.2 billion in cash. In a…
5 free apps that add cool Windows 7 features to Windows 10
A new OS often retires features that were in its predecessor. If you’re still holding onto Windows 7 because a…
Apple: Want apps? Then subscribe
Apple announced that by this fall it will let nearly all iOS app makers switch to a subscription-based business model,…
Is Oracle cooking its cloud books?
It wasn’t that long ago that Oracle’s lord and master, Larry Ellison, snarled that cloud computing was just hype. He…
IDG Contributor Network: Target's war on suppliers could be averted through more creative IT
When Reuters last week reported that Target “is asking many suppliers to take on up to an extra 3-5 percent…
Symantec to acquire Blue Coat for $4.65 billion
Security company Symantec is to acquire Web security provider Blue Coat for $4.65 billion in cash in a deal that…